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Frankenstein In Baghdad
Paperback Edition: 1
From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, Hadi - a scavenger and an oddball fixture at the local caf - collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognise the parts as
people and to give them a proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed.
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Hadi soon realises he's created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive. As the violence escalates and Hadi's acquaintances - a journalist, a government worker, a lonely older woman - become involved, the Whatsitsname and the havoc it wreaks assume a magnitude far greater than anyone could have imagined.
An extraordinary achievement, at once horrific and blackly humorous, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures the surreal reality of contemporary Baghdad.
Pages : 272
Publisher : Oneworld Publications
Publication date : 2018-11-01
Subjects: Fiction, Contemporary, Crime / Thrillers, Historical Fiction, Horror & Ghost Stories